Monday, February 15, 2016

Turkey continues to attack YPG forces for the third day…

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Perinçek: AK Party rule best period of my life
Today’s Zaman
Doğu Perinçek, the Workers’ Party (İP) leader who was given a life sentence in 2013 as part of a trial concerning the Ergenekon terrorist organization, has said that he is enjoying the best period of his life because he believes that faith-based ..

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has demanded that the government immediately brief parliament on the Turkish army’s recent shelling of the military wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria
Turkish officials have confirmed that its armed forces shelled positions of the military wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria for a third straight day on Feb. 15, saying the move was retaliation against the PYD’s military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG)
HDP Spokesperson Bilgen has said, “You cannot get involved in some other country against its will other than [providing] humanitarian aid” as to Turkey’s call on PYD to withdraw from Azaz”.
Russia said on Feb. 15 that Turkey’s shelling of PYD and Syrian regime positions in the north of the country was a “provocative” action
YPG official spokesperson Xelîl has refuted Turkey’s claim that it has “retaliated against YPG’s attacks”: “Not a single bullet has been shot over four years from YPG’s side on Turkey”.
In his statement on Turkey launching artillery shootings on the Menagh airbase, Prime Minister Davutoğlu has recorded; “YPG will immediately withdraw from Azez and the surrounding area. It will not even go close to Azez.

Tens of thousands flee ongoing Russian airstrikes and pro-Assad ground assaults on Aleppo and surrounding towns

 

PYD Co-Chair Salih Müslim has commented on Turkish Military Forces shelling the part of Azez under PYD Control: Turkey should not intervene in Syria’s internal issues, if it does, all Syrians would resist”.
The Progressive Journalists Association (ÇGD) has recognized two daily Hürriyet reporters, Fevzi Kızılkoyun and İdris Emen, for their work in 2015, while also extending a special “solidarity” award to imprisoned journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
European Union has called on Turkey to cease attacks against YPG. Holland has noted that that everybody had to stick to the plan.
Turkey will continue to strike back at fighters of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Feb. 14, despite growing pressure on Ankara to stop the shelling
Dicle News Agency Antalya Correspondent Feyyaz İmrak has been arrested. The number of arrested journalists has risen to 34.
Videos of male violence stats in Turkey in 2015 have been voiced by Can Bonomo, Vedat Aydın, and Simon Johns.

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